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Contents of Volume 17, Issue 9 (September) Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Official Publication of the Association for Information Systems Published: Monthly Electronically ISSN: 1536-9323 Published by the Association for Information Systems, Atlanta, USA (http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/)
Editor-in-Chief: Professor Suprateek Sarker, University of Virginia, USA
Paper Business Process and Information Technology Alignment: Construct Conceptualization, Empirical Illustration, and Directions for Future Research
Paul Tallon, Loyola University, Maryland Magno Queiroz, Utah State University Tim R. Coltman, University of Wollongong Rajeev Sharma, University of Technology Sydney
Abstract Since strategic alignment first rose to prominence with Henderson and Venkatraman’s (1993) seminal paper, research has tended to focus on the extent of fit between IT and business strategy at the firm level. Although useful, a firm-level view of alignment could mask what firms are doing to realize intellectual alignment between business and IT strategy and whether their actions will likely succeed. In this study, we build on an emergent stream of research that considers alignment between IT and business strategy at the process level. Since research tends to view this form of alignment through the lens of IT support for business strategy, this perspective fails to account for how IT can enable the development of new business strategies. Accordingly, we conceptualize alignment between IT and business strategy at the process level using the lens of IT shortfall (a lack of IT support for business activities) and IT slack (having more IT than needed to support current business activities). Using data from matched surveys of IT and business executives at 317 U.S. and E.U. firms, we illustrate the value of this conceptualization and its process measures. Our results show that IT shortfall is negatively correlated with IT business value, while IT slack is positively correlated with IT business value. We further note that the existence of IT shortfall and IT slack depends on differences in firms’ chosen business strategy and whether a process is critical or non-critical to that strategy’s success.
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Paper Graph-based Cluster Analysis to Identify Similar Questions: A Design Science Approach
Blooma Mohan John, University of Canberra Alton Y.K. Chua, Nanyang Technological University Dion Hoe Lian Goh, Nanyang Technological University Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Epworth HealthCare & Deakin University
Abstract Social question answering (SQA) services allow users to clarify their queries by asking questions and obtaining answers from other users. To enhance the responsiveness of such services, one can identify similar questions and, thereafter, return the answers available. However, identifying similar questions is difficult because of the complex language structure of user-generated questions. For this reason, we developed an approach to cluster similar questions based on a web of social relationships among the questions, the answers, the askers, and the answerers. To do so, we designed a graph-based cluster analysis using design science research guidelines. In evaluating the results, we found that the proposed graph-based cluster analysis is more promising than baseline methods.
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Paper Impression Formation and Durability in Mediated Communication
Sue Brown, University of Arizona Robert Fuller, University of Tennessee Sherry M. Thatcher, University of South Carolina
Abstract Using literature from impression formation and social information processing theory, we examine the impact of communication style on impression formation and durability in a mediated environment. We leverage common writing styles found in workplace emails—emoticons, uppercase, lowercase, typographical errors—to examine how message receivers evaluate senders using these styles. Via a lab experiment with 748 subjects, including undergraduate students, graduate students, and working professionals, we found that impressions were associated with writing style beyond the email content. Receivers perceived senders of emails containing emoticons, errors, or written entirely in uppercase or lowercase as less functionally competent. They also perceived senders as less methodologically competent when emails used emoticons and less politically competent when emails were all lowercase or contained errors. They perceived senders using a neutral writing style as less sociable than senders using emoticons. In contrast to impression durability in face-to-face environments, receivers positively revised impressions when senders changed their style to neutral from any of the non-neutral styles. We attribute this difference to two characteristics of the IT artifact: symbol variety and reprocessability.
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